AN EDUCATION TEST. A professor once told his pupils that he should consider them educated in the best sense of the word when they could say "Yes" to every one of the questions that he should put to them. Here are the questions: — Has education given you sympathy with all good causes and made you espouse them? Has It made yon public spirited? Has it made you a brother to tin? weak ? Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? Do you know what it is to be a friend yourself? Can you look an honest man or a pure woman in the eye? Do you see anything to love in a little child? Will a lonely dog follow you in tlio street? Can von be high-minded and happy in the mealier drudgeries of life? Vo you think washing dishes and liooin turnips just as compatible with hisii thinking as piano playing or golf? j Are you good for anything to your l self? Can you be happy alone? Can ; you look out on the world and see anything else except £ b. tf,?

THE HOMING INSTINCT OF A CAT. A wonderful instance of the homing Instinct of a cat is described by a correspondent of "Country Life"— "Our chauffeur's daughter recently came by rail from lier home in Car din. to visit her father at. Ripon. She brought with lier, in a basket, an ordinary black tom cat, which she has had four years, intending to leave him with her father. After the first day in his new home, while his mis tress was still here, the cat disap peared and coukl not be found. In quiries elicited the fact that a black cat had been seen on the railway which passes near the house. Ten days later a letter arrived from Car diff saying that the cat had conic home. "He was in an exhausted state, with all his claws worn off aiul the flesh of his toes abraded. The distance be tween Ripon and Cardiff is fully two hundred and miles. The cat must therefore have travelled nearly thirty miles a day. Physically that is a fairly good feat. But, if he re turned by the way he came, how di&a...

the world's great .love stories: THE TRAGEDY OF GEORGE ELIOT The life o£ Mary Ann Evans, v. ho, under the pen-name of George Eliot, became one of the most famous ol the Victorian era novelists, is a renin 'li able example of the old, old law that when a woman breaks the moral code of the society in which she lives she has to pay a heavy price, which is j,ion tiiat of a broken heart. George Eliot was by nature conven tional in her temperament. In spite ol her almost masculine strength of mind she had none of the audacity of such a woman as the French novelist, ^.eorge Sand, who broke moral laws as lightly as though they were match sticks, and was not conscience strick en. Our English novelist lived in a country and in an age which was hor rified by the slightest disregard of tlic proprieties. She had been brought up in a strictly religious home, among pious but rather narrow-minded people, and although for a time her intellect revolted from absolute belief in the Christian faith, her...

A New Magazine. The " Inlander," a new quarterly nia»iiz!np. compiled nnd edited by tli^ Kev. J. Flynn, is an interesting little hook, containing a- (Inscription of life and experiences in the back blocks nf Australia. To band is a- copy of the first number, whinh contains 52 pages and a number of interesting photo graphs depicting life as it lived in the inland places. The book id written' by a nun who has lived in the plac-s he writes abiut, and Mr Flynn hts great hopes of the future of the inland nf this great country.

THE AN D Published Weekly. Telei'iiu.ve No. 16. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1914 Local Topics. — ■—=:o: —— An important sale of property w il be held at Lnvoi looli 011 Wednesday January 21, wlnn L1'. J. Liitlo l'ty Ltd will offer for salu Mr J. Dixon's properties. For particulars see advt Miss Jessie White intends to give her gymnasium pupils 11 night at the pictures at an early date, a treat which the children are sure to appre ciate and enjoy. Tenders are invited in this issu® for booth privileges at the Koruin Imrra Agricultural Socioty's Show in February. Tenders close on Friday, January 10th. Buy or sell your farm through Smith Nicholson L'ty, Limited, who can help with their owu money iu the financing. Messrs Alex. Scott and Co., will hold a salu of furniture 011 Wednes day next, Jan. lltli, at Constable Johnstone's house in Bridge Street. Particulars are advertised. The Christinas holidays passed off quietly in Korumburra. Quite a number of former residents pwd the township and t...

ItiA/l uHELL Urt L.UC1V. What most men call bad luck it not . -.hat chance does not present itEeli o them, but simply that they let it :o by and miss It. If you want to be lucky In life, orce luck and make It yourself. Be .ove lu yourself, and others will be ifeve In you. Rise early, be punctual, reliable, hon •st, economical, industrious and perse . -lug, anil, take my word for it, you will be lucky—more lucky than you ave any Idea of. N'eier admit that you have failed, at you have been beaten; if you are own, get up again and fight on. Be cheerful, amiable, and obliging. !o not show anxiety to be pnid for any ood i urn you may have the chance of oing to others. When you have discovered who your «1 friends are, be true to them; stick > them through thick and thin. Do not waste time regretting what lost, but prepare yourself for the ext deal. Forget Injuries at once; never air our grievances; keep your own Be rets as well as other people's; be de ermined (o succeed, and let no on...

THE Rev. J. HGSKING Minister of the CONGREGATIONAL MISSION CHURCH, Fitzroy, Melbourne. Sends his opinion of CLEMENTS TONIC " I was recommended to try Clements Tonic. I was completely run down, suffered from nertious prostration, with insomnia and severe headaches. I had spent much money on medicines to no purpose. " One bottle put me right and was worth its -weight in gold. '' I recommend this medi cine strongly. JOHN HOSKING." The "Rev. J. HOSKING, D.D.. is kno\vn as &amp;n earnest church worker, and hi'^siimony to CLEMENTSTON1C was sent for the good it mipht do, This medicine is certain in its effects on run irritated nerves, and quickly Weakness, Loss of QjCMfc#lL." '-*•« CHEMISla -,.w WS SELL IT.

NATURE'S LAWS. Nature is a generous mother, bin an I ugly step-mother if one attempts to ; cross her purpose. The great mistake of many farmers is in trying to l>e penny-saving, in buying cheap seed, working -with tools unfit for the pur pose required of them, and mating their animals with inferior sires, against nature's laws. 'There is but one result. Nature goes on with her business and the breeder comes to grief and is ready to sell out. Me simply worked at cross-purposer- with nature. She does not advertise her intentions, nor cry them through the streets, yet she speaks in no uncer tain language to the listening ear. It the breeder works in unison with na ture's laws, he is all-powerful and his success sure.

WHAT THE HORSE THINKS. Give a horse a cliance. There is time enough after that to make him go. A horse naturally becomes more or less like its driver. • Most balky horses are made so b> their drivers. Never whip a horse because you are angry. A good teamster gains the confi dence of his team. A horse should be made to fear the whip rather than feel it. Teach a team to pull.- a light .aad right and tliey will pull a heavy load right. Never train a team on a heavy load. • Never scold a team for breaking an cvener. ' , Load light at first arid heavier after wards. Never pull a team when they are out of breath.' Do not allow a team to stop at will, but stop fhem soon afterwards. Short stops and often Is a good rule for resting horses. A horse that will stop when he is told to -will seldom run away. It is all right for your horse to have speed if you never find it out. Move a little yourself to get started, instead of asking your "team to make up lost time.

- CiUCKET. ■ January ■ 15, when they -will piny a metropolitan team on tlio M.C.C. ground. The local team will be allowed to bat 15 inoii. The competition-watches on Satur day were responsible for good scoring in both fixtures. Koruinburra and' Ivoiigwak • played oii the latlor's wicket. The home team were. the (irsfc to bat and pnt up the good seoro of 193, Giblct ^accounting for S1..1 of them, put together by good forcing cricket. Included ill his score were five sixers. Tabor, made 29, and J31iss 22. Koruml uh'u lost, one wicket for 38, and tlio resujt of next Saturday's play will be awaited with interest. The 'Burraites an sanguine of making the necessary runs, albeit Kongwak are preltycon lident as to tlie result. Out-trim travelled to •Juiubunnn. Tlio visilort made 215, out of which C. lirickson compiled 102. lie had many " lives" while making the runs as about a dozen catches were dropped.:. This is the first.century made in local cricket for several years. Jnmbimna have lost...

Bathing Accident at Inver loch. . On Sunday last, Bevt Ivorr, wIk lias been working at .Kongwak, wa' bathing in the enclosureat I.uvorlocli ■■Whilst diving into the water ho ii ,501110 .way injured his back. , Twi • lady, bathers-noticed Kerr in diflicul :ties and one oL' Ihcm with a coupleol ■ ineji got liiin out oC the water.. Di 'Begg examined the unfortunate man; and found him in' n, serious condition, i bono of the back being fractured. Kerr was taken to the Woutliaggi Hospital 011 Monday where lie now lies in :i critical condition. The un fortunalo mail is paralysed and it is .not expected that he will live.

WOMEN'S WORLD. . THE VALUE OF ORDERLINESS. Orderliness always pays in the long run. One cannot always keep the house outwardly straight if it is to be used as most people use" their homes. But there is a truer orderli ness that every good housewife loves and should attain. Most careless housewives know the feeling of dis may when a change in temperature calls for a change in raiment, or when circumstances suddenly demand some little-used article. Then it is that untidy storerooms and boxes empha sise the beauty of having a place for things and everything where it be longs. The first step is in providing the "places." Iiow many pantries are dif ficult to care for and unpleasant in appearance because they are cluttered vviih accumulations of empty fruit jars! Somewhere near the kitchen— m the storeroom or even in the wood shed u there is no other available place—put up a cupboard purposely to receive these jars as they are emp tied. A_ box, fitted with a door and rough shelves, will a...